Porcelain Bow Bocage
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Lot Description
- Porcelain: A Bow Bocage "New Dancers" Figure of a shepherdessCirca 1768, iron-red dagger and anchor mark. Standing before an elaborate flowering tree and wearing brightly coloured and flowered clothes, on a four-footed scroll-moulded base applied with flowers and foliage and enriched with turquoise and gilding 9½ in. (24 cm.) high
Provenance
Property of Neil and Sharon Phillips
Lot Notes
See Anonymous sale, Christie's, New York, 23 May 2002, lot 237 for an example of the present model and her male companion, together known as the 'New Dancers'
Price Realized $1,875 Price includes buyer's premium Estimate$1,000 - $1,500
- Sale 1892. Important English Furniture and Ceramics. 11/10/2007
New York, Rockefeller Plaza
References
- http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support/friends/opac/cataloguesummary.html?_searchstring_=(maker='Bow%20Porcelain%20Manufactory')&_limit_=100&_function_=xslt&_resultstylesheet_=imagecs
- http://www.antique-marks.com/bow-porcelain.html
- http://www.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/support/friends/opac/cataloguesummary.html?_searchstring_=(maker='Bow%20Porcelain%20Manufactory')&_limit_=100&_function_=xslt&_resultstylesheet_=imagecs
- http://www.andrewdando.org/ad/20.18thporfig.htm
- http://www.woolleyandwallis.co.uk/cataloguepast.aspx?SaleID=386&Page=15
- http://www.archive.org/stream/bowchelseaderbyp00bemruoft/bowchelseaderbyp00bemruoft_djvu.txt=
- http://books.google.com/books?id=MmVsphu60NQC&lpg=PA102&ots=r3YWhwO8Km&dq=bow%20bocage%20new%20dancers&pg=PA102&output=embed" width=500 height=500